Eien no Aeselia-Kono daichi no hate de

[Ghaleon]

Sorry if I misspelled the name, it's a tough on to remember. Anyway I'm currently playing this game and I'm enjoying it. I'm doing my usual game discussion thread where I hope to spam a vet of the game some questions, and will be willing to offer my own input as I learn more.

I'm on my phone, so I cant link where you get thetranslation patch, but I will later on my CPU.

Anyway for those who don't know, this game is a kind of turn-based RPG. Think ogre battle with no real time world exploration, tarot cards, and more town/army development options. There is also a huge amount of story so far. I honestly spent multiple hours reading stuff befor I even played the first stage. It is NOT a visual novel though.

Anyway my summary on My likes/dislikes on this game:
likes:
story is good, characters are very lovable, even the main character is easy to like due to being a good guy without being too cliche IMO.
The Turn-based aspect of the game owns, I especially like how it has some town development, something ogrebattle really lacked
voice-acting inbattle has more lines than you can shake a stick at... It doesn't get boring, you can also fast-forward stuff easily if you like.
Seems to have good replay value for an rpg, many endings, new game plus, and 3 difficulty levels (balanced for new game pluses).
You can save pretty much anywhere, even during conversations. This is a good thing because dialogue scenes tend to be surprisingly long.
Dislikes:
combat strategy is pretty basic, despite being enjoyable, it could easily have been better IMO
music is pretty ok, track variety is not, you will probably get bored of it... It's not annoying though because it's pretty atmospheric.

Just to note, this is NOT a tactical rpg.
4squad cap sucks,maybe more are unlocked later but I suspect not.

edit: link to translation patch as promised:

http://rapidshare.co...nglish_1.03.exe
or
http://dakkodango.co...nglish_1.03.exe
or
http://hotfile.com/d...h_1.03.exe.html

Props to Manz on DS for advertising these (possibly hosting the patches too? I dunno).

Hime, does orpha become good later on? Esperia mentioned something about having great potential. Is there a level where she starts to become good? I have her at 15 and she's still pretty bad. Her kicks are weak as %#@%#, often doing less than 100 damage, her defense is bad, and her hp is the worst in the game. In the back, her fire spells aren't bad, but Crimson's are better (given the same spell), and that other lady's.. well hers are absolute crap except for the area of effect fire spell, which is basically an Iwin button. 170+ attack% + 900 power..yeah..stuff gets fucked up really bad from hers (orpha, who is 3 levels higher, has about 50% less attack, and her power for the same spell is only 720 IIRC).

Also, do the class changes that require low-mind make it worthwhile over the ones requiring high? Seems that you need high to get the high eternal rank, and the low mind paths don't have an equivilent, so I'm just assuming high is pretty much better most of the time.

[trancehime]

Eien no Aseria holds a special place in my heart for being one of the very first CS visual novels I have ever played on a console, when I was like 12 damn years old or something.

However, I have not played the PC version - only the PS2 version.

EDIT: I am curious as to your decision to say that this is not a VN.

[Ghaleon]

Well the place I discovered it stated it as an rpg/strategy, given that I never played a VN myself, I figured the source's opinion should be trusted over my initial impression. I've also read VNs have gameplay sit on the sidelines over story. I don't know if that is true, but for this game, you do actually play more than read... Though the collosal storyfest right at the start will make you think otherwise.

I was actually thinking myself it was a VN anyway despite what the source said before I reached the gameplay part.

I read the PC version has extended gameplay too according to the English translated guide thingie. I don't know why this game seems to lack a wiki page. I'm guessing it's cuz the original was an h-game and the name just gets flagged on the net as Japanese only content or something. I really don't know squat about that, I just recall seeing some Blog talk about how sites with h-content like (insert site name here, min-something I think) are only viewable if you live in Japan.

Anyway I adore SSH's music and did research on lost child. One such site was selling a copy, and the guy was like ZOMG it's a VN with actual boss battles! Like the idea of a VN having combat was so amazing. I don't know if the guy had a point or not but it's stuff like that which gave me the impression that a VN doesn't have much gameplay.

Hope that answered, please confirm/deny stuff and explain, I'm alwYs up for learning about games, your tastes seem pretty similar to my own to boot, minus the dota thing =p.